russia\u2019s space industry continues to rapidly degrade due to the war, sanctions, and the loss of access to Western technologies.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>Yesterday, during the launch of the russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, an accident occurred, damaging the launch pad. This is the only launch complex from which russia can conduct crewed missions. As a result, russia has temporarily lost the ability to send astronauts into space.<\/p>\n Since the start of the full-scale invasion, russian propaganda has increasingly used spaceflight as \u201cproof\u201d that russia is an advanced high-tech nation. In reality, however, the country\u2019s space sector is visibly deteriorating.<\/p>\n \u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>Since 2022, the number of russian space launches has been steadily decreasing each year, while the gap between russia and the real leaders of the industry \u2014 the United States and China \u2014 continues to grow. For example, in 2024 russia conducted 17 launches, while the U.S. conducted 145.<\/p>\n By refusing to end the war, russia is steadily losing its status as a \u201cmajor space power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" russia\u2019s space industry continues to rapidly degrade due to the war, sanctions, and the loss of access to Western technologies. \u25ab\ufe0fYesterday, during the launch of the russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, an accident occurred, damaging the launch pad. This is the only launch complex from which russia can conduct crewed missions. As…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}